Dan Carpenter

GM, Uber AI Solutions. AI hardware and tech platforms. Unapologetic wine snob. Go Cougs!

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Santa Clara is the #2 county in the country for data centers and income.

At a recent town meeting, the city revealed that data centers cover 9% of the city general fund and they keep the area's electricity costs 33-57% lower than those in surrounding utilities.

Lucky!

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@buzzmable This is freakin awesome, nice work. Did you upload a CSV of your playbook? Trying to sort how to adjust this for my Xbox dynasty

[Matt McIlwain @mattmcilwain]

Voting yes on initiative 645 to repeal the state income tax is critical for the future of Washington. Encouraging to see the polling, but spread the word and get out the vote!

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Olympia passed a 9.9% unconstitutional income tax and buried in it are 13 sections that quietly strip the tax exemption off public pensions.

Why? Look at the number sitting right here:

$166.1 BILLION in WA public pension retirement money, previously untaxed:

PERS 1: $9.6B — state & local govt employees (legacy, pre-1977)
PERS 2/3: $72.8B — state & local govt employees
TRS 1: $7.0B — public school teachers (legacy, pre-1977)
TRS 2/3: $30.1B — public school teachers
SERS 2/3: $11.3B — school support staff (bus drivers, custodians, aides)
PSERS 2: $2.0B — public safety (corrections, 911 dispatch)
LEOFF 1: $7.2B — police & firefighters (legacy, pre-1977)
LEOFF 2: $24.0B — police & firefighters
WSPRS 1/2: $2.0B — state troopers
JRS: $9.4M — judges
JRF: $1.7M — judges (legacy fund)

TOTAL: $166.1B

That's the target. Sec. 812 of the bill amends RCW 41.26.053 (LEOFF — cops and firefighters) to say the old tax exemption "does not exempt any pension or other benefit... from tax under Title 82A RCW." Same language hits PERS, TRS, SERS, WSPRS, and judges too. 13 statutes, systematically rewritten.

$166 billion in retirement money just became a target. Screenshots below — read it yourself.

[College GameDay @CollegeGameDay]

Welcome to the Hall of Fan, Ol' Crimson 👏

No better way to celebrate 500 shows on the road 🎉

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@coachlukefalk @grok who are the coaches in this photo

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@micsolana Banger of a piece today @micsolana. Thanks for the time you put into it

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@PapaThrow @BarstoolWazzu @pchogs @badbirdiegolf When are these going on sale? Will it be campus only?

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@1BethDutton Are you seeing any day to day improvement? We are supposed to come on Tuesday and are hoping things improve over the weekend

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@regardingsemi Hell yea! Thanks for the quick turn

[Anduril Industries @anduriltech]

Thunder. The New Era of Attack Aviation.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

U.S. data centers require:

30x less water than U.S. golf courses.
100x less than California almonds.
200x less than U.S. home lawns.
2,500x less than U.S. crop irrigation.

Who is protesting almonds? Golf courses? Lawns? Nobody.

China does not feel threatened by your lawn.

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@ClayTravis Dumb and Dumber to Dumb and Dumberer

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@fed_speak How about the matching gear that they wear as adults?

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

America isn't efficient, or tidy, or regimented. It's messy. Complicated. Unpredictable. And that's precisely the point. A nation that centers the individual over the state always will be. I wouldn't have it any other way.

My latest for America 250:
https://t.co/WS2tiHfQpj

[American Hooligans 🇺🇸⚽️ @AmericanHoolis]

GET TF UP IT’S A USMNT 🇺🇸 MATCH DAY!!!!!!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@LucasCoug @Barkley_Tap This is some AI slop bullshit. Look at Chris Johnson

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@LucasCoug @Barkley_Tap Lawrence Taylor….not a RB

[Dan Carpenter @dbcarpenter]

@matthew_sigel 18MW is hardly consequential, and most hyperscalers won’t even look at sites less than 300MW with 18 month delivery timelines.